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Scott Sonnon - the "Flow Coach"
Who do world class coaches consult and endorse? Ask American Sambo Academy Director Dr Brett Jacques, USA Judo Team Coach Neil Ohlenkamp, SFC Matt Larsen NCOIC at the US ARMY Combatives School, USA Karate Coach Tokey Hill, Canadian Sambo Team Coach Igor Yakimov, World Brazilian Jiujitsu Champion Steve Maxwell, UFC Winners Andrei Arlovski and Elvis Sinosic, strength guru Pavel Tsatsouline, National Law Enforcement Program Director Mike Gillette, Wake Forest University Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Ethan Reeve. Professionals from all fields endorse and consult with Coach Sonnon.
Coach Sonnon (pictured on left featured in the World of Martial Arts Magazine) is one of the most trusted resources on physical culture and martial art, as an international champion, USA National Coach, National Physical Conditioning Advisor and a multiple time Hall of Fame inductee.He is a leading national seminar speaker and coach in the martial arts, physical fitness and strength conditioning, having taught and consulted with Olympic athletes, medical professionals, publicly traded corporations, and actors.
Coach Sonnon has lectured at Universities, been featured on radio and television shows, and conducts seminars all over the world (pictured below right conducting a seminar for Sweden's largest kickboxing academy - Ironman.) He has been featured in over 20 publications including Black Belt Magazine in which he was the first celebrity to appear three times in nine months. Coach Sonnon's clients have won Ultimate Fighting Championship competitions, run Fortune 500 companies, and train professional sports, law enforcement and military teams.
Coach Sonnon created a new field combining the Tactical, Combatives, Martial Arts and Fitness communities: called Circular Strength Training® to reflect the holistic and three dimensional nature of his Performance Enhancement system. His patented Combat Specific Strength Training Tool, the Clubbell®, is used by athletes amateur to professional: such as Andrei Arlovski, UFC Heavyweight Champion and 2X World Sambo Champion; Egan Inoue, 2X World BJJ Champion and Superbrawl Champion; and Steve Maxwell, World Masters BJJ Champion and World SOMBO Champion. Coach Sonnon’s CST System now has certified instructors worldwide, and is the most effective strength training system specifically created for combative physical preparedness.
Coach Sonnon pictured left was asked to be a guest speaker to present his revolutionary Clubbell training methods to thousands of onlookers at the 2004 Arnold Schwarzenegger Fitness Expo.
With a vision to affect positive evolution on the landscape of physical culture, Coach Sonnon pioneered a path of bridges leading to personal empowerment and he published RMAX Magazine, the largest online martial art fitness magazine with a readership of 200,000 access per hour! His innovations touch every corner of the planet. He travels worldwide conducting motivational and educational seminars for champions and professionals from every field and discipline, such as the NHL's NJ Devils (pictured right with Coach Sonnon during his workshop).
Scott has an extraordinary array of learning materials at his company’s website, RMAX.tv Productions. Coach Sonnon authored several books including the award winning Body-Flow: Freedom from Fear-Reactivity, patented his own unique piece of strength training equipment, the Clubbell®, and has created over 50 other resources which have touched people of all likes worldwide.
The Power of Flow
After the breakup of the Soviet Union in the mid-1990's, why would the leader of the Russian National Martial Art System and the director of Russian Physical Culture invite an American from Pennsylvania, Scott Sonnon, to learn first-hand the training methods used by the former Soviet Union Olympic champions?
The short story goes like this: General Alexander Retuinskih had heard that Coach Sonnon (pictured on the right demonstrating a Sambo throw on the Black Sea, Russia) was not only an accomplished international Sambo champion, a form of wrestling unique to Russia combining elements of various martial arts and wrestling styles, but also an assiduous student of human biomechanics, the study of human movement, and psychology.
The devil is in these details: a painful loss at an World Sambo competition (Coach Sonnon - top right hand side of photo on right of the USA SOMBO Team - 1994 World Championships) to the Russian opponent became the catalyst for Coach Sonnon's subsequent immersion in peak performance training. To be blunt, something Russians and Americans are known for, Scott asked the victor in Russian why he'd won? "Better training." (To get the long version, ask Scott yourself.)
After his "Russian studies," General Retuinskih urged Scott to "Americanize" his Russian training experience. To do this, he assembled a a team of sport psychologists, professional strength and conditioning coaches, psychological warfare and military operations professionals, law enforcement hostile subject control and counter-terrorism specialists, and stress physiologists among others, to take the best of Russian physical culture and martial arts training, and adapt it to American sports, fitness and combat practices for a unique peak performance program tailored designed to each American rugged individual.
The result is not a collection of "techniques" but a set of instruction designed to enable the individual, regardless of his or her interest, to develop a regimen that will lead to:
· progressively increasing, dynamic ranges of strength, flexibility, and motion (moving your body in ways you might not otherwise imagine possible)
· Dynamic Relaxation (i.e., the ability to focus and concentrate while in motion)
· "Flow State" Performance (Go with the Flow!)
Sonnon has directly trained professional sports teams as well as individual athletes and professional trainers, developing individual and sport-specific programs dramatically increasing performance and reducing or eliminating injuries.
Fitness pundits such as Marty Gallaher, World Champion Powerlifter and author of the Washington Post's Strength & Fitness column have endorsed Scott's training as: "Sonnon’s approach doesn’t come in a container and could be called a thinking man’s approach to fitness. His system questions long-held basic assumptions about what fitness is, what the goals should be, and offers a unique and iconoclastic methodology as the vehicle to the destination. Sonnon is one of a new breed of thirty-something truth tellers and has staked out an esoteric fitness approach. His no-compromise message is spreading as followers report gains galore. When discussion turns to the new breed of fitness innovators, Sonnon’s name is continually brought up. Real experts recognize real talent."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. CIRCULAR STRENGTH TRAINING®
a. Intu-Flow®
b. Prasara Body-Flow™
c. Clubbell® Training
II. FLOWFIGHTING™ MARTIAL ART
III. RMAX POWERED PROGRAMS
IV. PACKAGES AND APPAREL
CIRCULAR STRENGTH TRAINING®
Multiple-sport International Champion, multiple-time USA National Team Coach, multiple-time Fitness and Martial Art Hall of Fame Inductee and Nominee, Scott Sonnon created the Circular Strength Training® (CST) System after having invested nearly two decades and hundreds of thousands of dollars in research, development and refinement, training in 9 different countries, to design and continue the evolution of this revolutionary methodology.
CST comprises 3 “wings” or sub-disciplines. Although these appear to be distinct, they are separate only as a coaching convention. The only way to focus on the basics is to ensure sufficient coverage of the material content in the three basic directions to CST:
Dynamic, pain-free mobility for myofascial nutrition and lubrication:
Intu-Flow®
Intu-Flow™ - a combination of the phrase "Intuitive Flow" - refers to the fact that our body-mind knows precisely what it needs for pain-free health and longevity. Intu-Flow™, as a result, is an incrementally progressive system of dynamic joint mobility exercise designed to release stored tension and break up calcium deposits, connective tissue adhesions and fascial density. Getting Intu-Flow™ restores energy by washing our entire matrix of connective tissue in nutrition and lubrication, which in turn vitalizes one's health, removes pain, and promotes longevity, because "We are as old as our connective tissue."
Bodyweight exercise through the 6 mechanical degrees of freedom:
Prasara Body-Flow™
Prasara Body-Flow™ is a synergistic physical practice which at first glance can appear to incorporate aspects of yoga, martial arts, acrobatics, break-dance and gymnastics. Prasara - Sanskrit for "Flow without thought" - transforms the self through a uniquely powerful approach to integrating breathing with movement and structure to unlock "flow-state." Body-Flow is a system of somatic engineering to release bound flow. Flow lies beneath the rusty armor of fear, anxiety and trauma that our ego carries around like so much luggage. Prasara Body-Flow™ is a physical practice of discharging fear, anxiety and trauma, which in turn restores one's natural state of Grace, or Flow.
Externally loaded three dimensional strength training:
Clubbell® Training
Clubbell® was designed and patented to be the weighted component of CST; the logical extension of pain-free dynamic mobility. The Clubbell® has been called “the most inefficient tool,” meaning that it demands the most personal physical efficiency and skill to move it gracefully. The Clubbell® has its roots in traditional club swinging: the oldest method of strength and conditioning known to humanity, and a former Olympic Sport. Club swinging existed for centuries in ancient Persia, India and Burma. CST lifted the archaic techniques of "fancy" traditional club swinging, combined it with an incrementally progressive system of joint mobility, and systematized it through modern sport science. Clubbell® Training is simply the most sophisticated, fun and creative vehicle for strength and conditioning ever conceived. Though they can be practiced independently, in reality these 3 Wings of CST are a seamlessly integrated whole – a complete stand-alone health system.
HEALTH FIRST
CST values a “health first” approach as we believe that without health, your fitness is like firing a canon from a canoe. Fitness builds out of, from and back towards health.
As a result, the first step you take on CST we call “tabula rasa” – or cleaning the slate. You don’t want to build a house on a swamp, and you don’t want to exercise on top of residual tension, dense myofascial tissue, fear-reactive patterns, or where the body has not yet remembered its full range of motion.
CST focuses on an intuitive rather than a conceptual method. It’s designed specifically to return our attention to the internal experience of physical exercise so that we reclaim autonomy over our vibrant, abundant energy. As part of this intuition, your CST practice will progress under the systematic, scientific process of how we develop neurologically: from head downward and spine outwards (known as the cephalocaudal-proximodistal trend).
CST concentrates on incremental “baby steps” and honors the balancing ratio of stress to rest and recovery. Stress elicits an adaptation, but growth and development happen during rest and recovery. Progression relates directly to increasing health first based upon strengthening one’s intuitive connection to the experience.
CST reveals that fun and creativity involve more than gratification. Performing a chain of tiny components strung together through your own imagination produces a scientific, synergistic training effect producing greater results in combination than if the individual components were performed independently for the same exact repetitions.
CST emphasizes efficiency: in developing physical competency and coordination as a human being, as you, rather than just a collection of random exercises. Teaching you coordination, CST helps you use less total work to accomplish more useful work in every activity: recreational or vocational.
CST honors the entire organism through integration of breath, movement and structure – the holy trinity of physical excellence. As such in stands in direct opposite to the two dimensional, linear fitness convention. CST uses three-dimensional, multi-planar mobility to realign structural efficiency by allowing breath to lead the way.
CST can become much more than an exercise past time, though you will receive 100% of the health benefits, if you merely deepen your personal practice daily. It (re)unifies Body – the movement, Mind – the structure, and Spirit – the breath, though a unique, proprietary formula: the Training Hierarchy Pyramid (THP).
TRAINING HIERARCHY PYRAMID
In this method, we honor that each and ever action conditions us. Every choice we make specifically conditions us, whether or not we prefer the outcome which results! As a result, CST reveals that balancing our fitness programs is an ever-ongoing process of readjustment, compensating for the actions of the previous cycle of activity. In other words, we’re always in a process of re-cleaning the slate.
Through incremental development, we progress towards increased sophistication. We become better at being ourselves. Our physical body is our “sport” or our “art”, and we learn how to reclaim our mastery in our most precious discipline: our own humanity. By taking off the brakes (and knowing how to appropriately and timely apply the brakes) we can truly put on the accelerator and cruise safely through our long, uninterrupted, blissful lives.
The Training Hierarchy Pyramid (THP) is a specific recipe for using all of the various tools of CST to accomplish what all fitness methods hope to but fall short, what all martial arts aspire to but become lost, and what each of us secretly craves but often dare not wish: flow, the elusive physical state of natural athleticism, that ecstatic experiential field we lived in as a child and which we deserve, have every right to, and can with work overcoming our impediments and with patience in healing, return to.
CST at its core is a vehicle for your personal transcendence, for becoming more of your true, best self. Hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life – grannies to grandmasters – have embraced CST as their hammer and chisel, going to work on their personal slab of marble, removing all which is not their internally pristine, fluidly adaptable statue of daily perfection.